Technomage Novels

[sindatur]

Iz, OOOOh, hadn't thought about.

There were 2 Technomages I saw (missed ep#4 Path of Sorrows). The first one was Alwyn in the 2nd episode (a good guy) and the other one was in a later episode, don't remember which one and the Lurkers guide didn't have the answer readily available. I don't remember that Technomages name, but you may have a point there.

When I finish reading the first book I'll have to drag the tapes out and check on that if the series isn't airing before then.

OK, went to SCIFI Vine and dug up Memory of War. That was the episode I was thinking of. From there I got the name John St. Ryan who played the Technomage, so I looked him up in the Database that the highlighted names in Lurkers guide takes you to and it credits him as Technomage (no Name). So other than re-watching Memory of War, don't know how to get his name.


[This message has been edited by sindatur (edited March 13, 2001).]

[iznardy]

on elizar and morden

well, the narrative doesn't specifically say that morden had anything to do with the confrontation between elizar and galen and isabella; however, elizar was extremely agressive with the other two, and it seems to me he may have felt "pressure" to perform well in front of a shadow agent. also, if morden already has his body guard of three invisible shadows at this time, then elizar would actually be performing in direct view of his "masters."

to some extent both here and in future scenes it seems like elizar is trying to both serve the shadows and protect fellow mages. apparently he feels that if he can get galen and isabella to ally with him, he will be able to protect them from direct contact with the shadows; he appears to be attempting the role of "middleman" the same way that justin tried to be a middleman with sheridan.

elizar, when we last glimpse him on board the narn ship, is also a meaner and nastier mage than in previous scenes; possibly he was "disciplined" for failing to secure galen and isabella.

[iznardy]

sindatur--if elizar was one of the mages in a crusade episode, i would expect him to be "unnamed," same as senna was not named in "in the beginning." probably the character wasn't developed enough at the time of the series.

[ProfCrash]

iz, I have no doubt that Elizar was performing for Morden, trying to demonstrate how he could lead the others. Elizar could very well ahve been instructed to goad Galen in such away that Galen would perform the spell of destruction so that the Shadows could see what Galen could do. (shrugs)

I do not know about the Technomage who appears in Crusade, I don't have the episodes taped so I cannot review them.

My one question is this, did Galen try and kill the Mage in question? If not, I would say that it is not Elizar. From what I read in the Lurker's Guide, the virus that was found was left there 100 years ago by a Mage, meaning not Elizar.

[AsIs]

I suspect that Elizar had a thing for Isabel and his nastier attitude is a result of her dying at his hand.

He was trying to kill Galen, not her.

[ProfCrash]

Elizar was casting am image, which Galen saw too late. The image was of Elric's stones broken and covered with Moss because the Mages are destroyed. He was telling the truth when he testified before the Circle.

[Wizz]

Well, well, well...Michigan State, huh? Graduated Morden, haunted by ProfCrash, and in the astronomy division we have Jeanne Cavelos teaching there at the beginning of her career.
Next time I'm there, I'm gonna have to look around, I tell ya. See if the "eerie glow" isn't just the street lights.

[QueenGOP]

LOL Wizz. I guess that explains why Prof Crash liked the book so much. It's not just the street lights that glow, you should see the river. PC claimed it was farm chemicals that gave it its lovely glow, but I wonder...

[ProfCrash]

hehe Actually that is the haze still left over from the riots three years ago. The left over tear gas vapors make the night air glimmer.

[PollyMath]

OK, I guess it is time for me to chime in here. I'm with Prof Crash and Azziz. I liked the book, expecially the beginning.

I thought that the stuff with Elric and Galen was meant, not mearly to show us a "day in the life" of Soom, but to show us something of the real charaters of Elric and Galen. When Elric is on B5 and Galen is part of the action in Crusade, we see their public personae - the ones that they use to evoke awe. Here we see that they are actually involved in the lives of the people on their planet. I like that. It makes it all the more poinient when Elric agrees to leave the entire Galaxy to muddle through the Shadow War. It must have been a heck of a wrench. We know that to some extent because he argues against it, but the evidence of what he does when he can do whatever he wants, speaks louder.

And Galen has the patience to befriend a small child. He remembers what it was like to be a child and lonely. He has empathy. I want to know that.

I must say that I also really enjoyed the Breen Cook-off. The idea that technomages sometimes use quite ordinary methods of deception not requiring tech. You use your power when you have to, but reserve it for those times. And the sheer joy of Galen and Isabelle at that time. To think what happiness they might have had together had they had more time.

Other stuff I like? That the mages regularly communicate by a kind of mental e-mail, Galen's spell of destruction and the burden he carries because of it, the description of the insertion of the tech (yikes that hurts), the general political machinations of the technomages as a group. As for the political stuff among the technomages, I guess I don't literally "like" it, but I think it rings very true. The mages aren't a species, they are a collection of individuals that share a type of power. They take seriously their resposibility to be sure their own members are worthy of the power, but they don't speak with one voice or even agree with each other a lot of the time. That is what people are like.

Somehting I could easily have lost? The image of Bruce Boxleitner's face on a body builder's torso clad in a tiny bathing suit like thing. Ew.

Perhaps more at another time.

-Polly